NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Paco is a program to aid package management when installing packages
from source code.
When installing a package, paco can be used in log mode (with option
-l) to wrap the installation command (e.g. "make install"), and log the
created files. By default the log is stored in directory
'/var/log/paco'.
Once some packages are installed and properly logged, paco can be used
in list mode, which is the default, to display package information.
Several options are provided to print the information in different
formats.
There are also options to remove packages, query for the owner of
files, or maintain the package database.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too.
The special option -- forces and end of option-scanning. This is
specially useful when entering the install command in log mode.

GENERALOPTIONS

-a,--all
Apply the specified action to all logged packages. This doesn't
work with option -r.
-h,--help
Display a help message and exit.
-L,--logdir=DIR
Base log directory. Default is '/var/log/paco', unless variable
LOGDIR is set in the configuration file (type 'man pacorc' for
more information).
-v,--verbose
Verbose output. -vv prints also debugging messages (only
meaningful with option -l).
--version
Display version information and exit.

DATABASEMAINTENANCEOPTIONS

-u,--update
Synchronize the log of the package with the current status of
the filesystem, calculating the size of the logged files and
checking whether they are missing. If a file becomes compressed
or uncompressed (with bzip2 or gzip), it is detected as well.
Use along with -a to update the whole database.
-U,--unlog
Remove the log of the package from the database.

GENERALLISTOPTIONS

-b,--block-size=SIZE
Use blocks of SIZE bytes for the sizes. SIZE may be an integer,
optionally followed by one of the following: k, K, m, M.
-k,--kilobytes
Like '--block-size=1k', or '--block-size=1024'.
--sort=WORD
Sort the list by WORD: When listing files, meaningful values for
WORD are: 'name' and 'size'. When listing packages, WORD may be
also: 'date' (or 'time'), 'files', 'missing-files' or 'missing-
size'.
-R,--reverse
Reverse order while sorting.
-t,--total
Print totals at the bottom of the list.

PACKAGELISTOPTIONS

-1,--one-column
List one package per line.
-F Print the number of installed files.
-M Print the number of missing files.
-C Print the number of shared files (both installed and missing).
-d,--date
Show installation date (-dd shows the hour too).
-s,--size
Show the currently installed size of each package; in human
readable format by default (e.g. 1.2M, 13k).
-n,--missing-size
Print the missing size of each package (= original size -
current size).

FILELISTOPTIONS

-f,--files
List currently installed files of the package.
-m,--missing-files
List missing files (those files removed after the installation
of the package). -f and -m options can be used together.
-c,--shared
With -f and/or -m, list only the shared files (those files also
logged by other packages).
-N,--non-shared
With -f and/or -m, list only the non shared files (those files
not logged by any other package).
-w,--who-shares
With -c, print the names of the packages that share each file.
-y,--symlinks
Print the contents of symbolic links.
-s,--size
Print the size of each file; in human readable format by default
(e.g. 1.2M, 13k).
-z,--no-package-name
Do not print the name of the package. Useful for scripts.

INFORMATIONOPTIONS

Note: Information may be not available for all packages.
-i,--info
Print package information.
-o,--configure-options
Print the configure options the package was built with.
-q,--query,--owner
Query for the packages that own one or more files.

LOGOPTIONS

-l,--log
Enable log mode: If a shell command is given as an argument,
execute and monitor it, logging the created files, otherwise the
list of files to log is read from the standard input.
The list of logged files is printed to the standard output,
unless any of -p or -D options is used, in which case is assumed
that a package is to be logged in the paco database.
When a shell comand is monitorized, paco returns the exit code
of that command.
See EXAMPLES below.
-p,--package=PKG
Specify the name of the package to log, which must begin with an
alphanumeric character. With -v, the list of logged files is
also printed to the standard error stream. With -vv, paco prints
detailed information about the install process. This holds for
option -D too.
-D,--dirname
Use the name of the current directory as the name of the package
to be logged.
-E,--exclude=PATH1:PATH2:...
Colon-separated list of paths to skip when logging. Default is
'/dev:/tmp:/usr/src:/media:/selinux:/sys:/usr/share/info/dir',
unless variable EXCLUDE is set in the configuration file (type
'man pacorc' for more information).
Shell wildcards are allowed in the PATHs. See PATHMATCHING
below for more details.
-I,--include=PATH1:PATH2:...
Colon-separated list of paths to scan when logging. Default is
'/', unless variable INCLUDE is set in the configuration file
(type 'man pacorc' for more information).
Shell wildcards are allowed in the PATHs. See PATHMATCHING
below for more details.
--ignore-errors
Do not exit if the install command fails. This allows for
logging uncomplete installations, and cleanup the system upon an
installation failure. Errors are not ignored by default, unless
variable LOG_IGNORE_ERRORS is set to 1 in the configuration file
(type 'man pacorc' for more information).
--log-missing
Log also the missing files (they are skipped by default). See
EXAMPLES below.
-+,--append
With -p or -D, if the package is already logged, append the list
of files to its log.

REMOVEOPTIONS

-r,--remove
Remove a package, keeping the shared files and asking for
confirmation by default. Compressed files (with gzip or bzip2)
are also removed. If the option is doubled (-rr), or all logged
files are successfully removed, the package is removed from the
database.
-B,--batch
Don't prompt for confirmation when removing (and assume yes to
all questions).
-e,--skip=PATH1:PATH2:...
Don't remove files in these paths.
Shell wildcards are allowed in the PATHs. See PATHMATCHING
below for more details.
--remove-shared
Remove also the shared files.

PATHMATCHING

Options -I, -E and -e accept a colon-separated list of paths, each of
which may contain shell-like wildcards (*, ? and [..]). Files are
matched against each of those paths, following the standard shell-like
expansion, but with the following exception: If a path in the list does
not contain any wildcard, and it is a directory, it matches any file
within that directory.
Note that if wildcards are to be used, the whole list of paths must be
enclosed in single quotes (') to protect it from being expanded by the
shell.

EXAMPLES

To log the installation of the package 'foo-1.0', which is installed
with the command 'make -C src install':
paco -lp foo-1.0 "make -C src install"
Note that in this example the quotes are required to prevent paco to
treat '-C' as a command line option.
Use single quotes if the command already contains double quotes:
paco -lp foo-1.0 'echo "hello world" > /var/log/foo.log'
The special end-of-option argument '--' may be used for the same
purpose:
paco -lp foo-1.0 -- make -C src install
Alternatively, we can use the basename of the current directory as the
name of the package to log, using the option -D instead of -p:
paco -lD "make install && make install.man"
If we have forgotten to install a file, it can be added to a previously
created log with the option -+:
paco -lp+ foo-1.0 "install foo /bin/foo"
Note that the option -+ cannot be used to remove a file from the log.
For instance, the following command:
paco -lp+ foo-1.0 "rm /bin/foo"
would not unlog the file /bin/foo from the log of foo-1.0, but it would
mark it as missing instead.
To avoid such behaviour it is sometimes useful to join up composed
install commands into one single command and run paco once. For
instance, imagine that a package installs the file /bin/foo, but we
want it to be installed in /usr/bin/foo. If one runs this:
paco -lp foo-1.0 make install
paco -lp+ foo-1.0 "mv /bin/foo /usr/bin/foo"
Both files, /bin/foo and /usr/bin/foo remain in the log. /usr/bin/foo
is marked as installed, and /bin/foo is marked as missing. This is
usually not the desired behaviour. As a workaround one can join up both
commands in one single paco run:
paco -lp foo-1.0 "make install && mv /bin/foo /usr/bin/foo"
In this case only /usr/bin/foo is logged.
The understand the meaning of the option --log-missing, consider the
following example, where the file /foo/bar does not exist:
echo /foo/bar | paco --log-missing -lp foo
This would log the file /foo/bar, even if it is missing. Without the
option --log-missing /foo/bar is skipped.
To remove all versions of the package foo, keeping the files in /etc
and /root, and without asking for confirmation:
paco -r --batch -e /etc:/root foo
To remove the package foo-3.3, keeping the files in /var/log and the
files ending with ".conf":
paco -r -e '/var/log:*.conf' foo-3.3
We have installed the package 'bubble-1.9' in prefix '/opt/bubble-1.9',
but we haven't logged the installation with paco. No problem! Just
create a log for it thusly:
find /opt/bubble-1.9 | paco -lp bubble-1.9

BUGS

Due to LD_PRELOAD limitations, paco can't follow the trace of suid
programs.
For the same reason, paco does not work with programs that statically
link libc.

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2004-2009 David Rosal <davidrr@sourceforge.net>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.